Insulator for handled vessels



` April 7, 1931- .5 B. CHURCH. JR 1,799,782

TNSULATOR FOR HANDLED VESSELS Filed April 9, 1930 fi/ A Patented Apr. 7, 1931 UNITED sr BENJAMIN CHURCH, JR., OF W'ALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO 1li/' AIJlrIll'Gr l FORD COMPANY, F WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION v INSULATOR FOR HANDLED 'VESSELS Application led April 9, 1930. Serial No. 442,757.

This invention relates to an improvement in insulators for handled vessels, particularly teapots, coffeepots and teakettles, in which an insulator is arranged between the ends of the handle and the lugs to which the handle is secured to the vessel. In the majority of insulators, some metallic connection is made between two parts, and while this, in some cases, is very slight, still it is suilicient to permit some heat to be transferred to the handle.

The object of this invention is to provide an insulator by which all metallic connection between the lug and the handle is avoided, and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. l is a side view of an insulator for handled vessels constructed in accordance with my invention and shown as applied between the two ends of a handle and the lugs of a vessel;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. l;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the plates, detached.

In carrying out my invention I employ two substantially-flat plates 10 and 11 corresponding in shape to the shape of the lugs 12 and 13 of a vessel 14 for any desired purpose. The plate 10 is formed with an anchor l5 and the plate 11 is formed with a corresponding anchor 16. These anchors are struck inward from the center of the plates and the outer faces of the plates are preferably slightly concaved. Each anchor is formed with a perforation 17 and the plates are turned so that the anchors stand parallel with each other.

The plates are then connected together by a block 18 of balzelite or other suitable material which flows through the perfora-V tions in the anchors and fills the concave surfaces of the plates, leaving an exposed ring 19 of metal. secured to one of the lugs and the other ring is secured to the corresponding end of the handle 20, and this may be done by silver solder, so as to provide a firm connection between the handle and the lugs, and this connection is made without the use of screws or other devices.

I thus provide an insulator for handled vessels in which the handle is completely insulated from the vessel and a firm connection between the handle and vessel is secured.

I claim:

1. An insulator for handled vessels, comprising a pair of plates, each formed with an anchor struck inward from the center of the plate, and a block of insulating material connecting the said two plates.

One of these rings is 2. An insulator for handled vessels, comu prising two substantially-flat plates, each formed with an integral perforated anchor struck inward from the centerV of the plate, said anchors arranged parallel with each other but out of contact, and a block of insulating material connecting the two plates.

3. An insulator for handled vessels, comprising two plates, each formed with an anchor struck inward from the center of the plate, the outer faces of the said plates slightly concaved, and a block of insulating material between the plates, interlocking the anchors and filling the concave portions of the plates.

4. An insulator for handled vessels, comprising two metal plates arranged in parallel planes, each formed with a perforation and with a perforated anchor extending inward from one side of the perforation and out of contact with each other, and a block of insulating rnaterial uniting the said plates and interlocking With the said anchors.

5. The combination With a vessel having a lug, a pair of substantially Hat plates, the outer edge of which conforms to the shape of thc said lug, said plates perforated and formed with inwardly-extending integral anchors separated from each other, a block 01' insulating material uniting the said plates, and a handle, one end of which is secured to the edge of the outer plate.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

BENJ. CHURCH, JR. 

